Salesforce has an analog to the FileMaker web viewer called “Canvas”. If you’re building JavaScript widgets for FileMaker’s web viewer you may be interested to know that running your code in Salesforce is parallel to what you’re doing in the web viewer for FileMaker.

I spent some time over the holidays working on a video game/app and am very pleased with how it came out. It’s a version of the classic Spirograph, but you can add multiple moving gears (rotors) to the set-up. You can also make the line weight (on most browsers) very thin, so you [...]

The first in a series of articles unpacking the Dropbox to FileMaker app I demoed at DevCon 2015. Links to the unlocked file follow along with tips for working with Access Tokens and OAuth2 in FileMaker web viewers.

Background

DevCon 2015 has come and gone, and certainly one of the highlights for me was building [...]

The movie below is from one of our most popular demos from “Year in Review” at DevCon 2014. I was talking about what a breakthrough custom functions were back in 2004 and how they unlocked a whole new kind of code-sharing among FileMaker developers. JavaScript functions in FileMaker may unlock [...]

If you haven’t played with flights on Virgin America’s new site you should definitely check it out. A great rethink of the flight booking workflow, it’s also a nice argument for the long-scrolling site.

Big, sexy date pickers are dear to my heart. Book a flight. Details on the redesign, Work & CO, [...]

The FileMaker 13v2 update has generated a lot of excitement about the fmp: protocol now being available for running scripts in all deployment situations. Previously, locally running files handled the protocol differently than their Go and Hosted counterparts. This made some of us a little hesitant to use this powerful new technology.

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